Husselton Head
Husselton Head is a cliff in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is West Chop Woods, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 20 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
How to reach it
- 20.1 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- West Chop Woods: 0.4 mi
- West Chop Meadow: 0.5 mi
- Carpenters Woods: 0.6 mi
- Eastville Beach Jetty: 0.8 mi
- Eastville Point Beach: 0.8 mi
- Tisbury Town Beach: 0.5 mi
- Owen Park Beach: 0.7 mi
- Eastville Beach: 0.8 mi
- Doug's Cove: 1.0 mi
- Lake Tashmoo Town Beach: 1.9 mi
- Owen Park: 0.9 mi
- Boch Park: 1.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
- Prospect Park: 1.4 mi
- Morton Park: 1.6 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 1.5 mi
- Tashmoo Hill: 2.0 mi
- Pilot Hill: 2.5 mi
- Nobska Hill: 4.4 mi
- Mount Sod: 5.4 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 2.2 mi
- War Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 4.4 mi
- Woods Holl: 5.4 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 5.8 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 1.0 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 1.4 mi
- Cottage Museum: 2.1 mi
- Mariposa Museum: 2.2 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 5.3 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 2.2 mi
- Big Bridge: 4.4 mi
- The Liberté: 5.2 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 5.2 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 5.4 mi
- North Head: 1.2 mi
- Makonikey Head: 3.7 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 4.6 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 5.9 mi
- Nobska Point: 6.1 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 5.6 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 5.6 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 6.0 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 13.7 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 18.9 mi
- Helen Keller: 5.5 mi
- Whale Tail: 5.5 mi
- Rachel Carson: 5.5 mi
- Whale Tail: 7.1 mi
- Buddha: 8.4 mi
- Keeper's House: 0.8 mi
- Keeper's House: 0.8 mi
- Oil House: 0.8 mi
- West Chop Light: 0.8 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 0.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 19.1 mi
- truck pull-off: 19.1 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 21.5 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 21.9 mi
- truck pull-off: 23.7 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 19.2 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.1 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Husselton Head. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SW 224° | 94.8 m | 10.7 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 5° | 93 m | 16.6 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | NNE 17° | 85 m | 19.1 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | N 9° | 82 m | 19.9 mi |
| Avery Hill | N 6° | 80 m | 18.2 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SW 228° | 78 m | 10.6 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NNE 21° | 77 m | 18.8 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | N 2° | 71 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:05 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:32 | 16:16 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 63 | 53 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vineyard Haven Marthas Vineyar, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358274893
Day trips start here
- Mattapoisett · 17 mi
- SouthCoast · 17 mi
- Marion · 18 mi
- Wareham · 21 mi
- Dartmouth · 22 mi
- New Bedford · 22 mi
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